ATMs empty
The ongoing blockade has prevented banks from loading cash into automated teller machines (ATMs), making cardholders unable to withdraw money from them. Banks and ATM operators said insecurity in...
View ArticlePregnant worker burnt
An expecting mother sustained severe burns in an arson attack on a minibus in the capital’s Demra area yesterday, the third day of the opposition’s 131-hour countrywide blockade. The victim, Shirina, a...
View ArticleOutraged business leaders demand foolproof security
Garment exporters yesterday, in a rare move, brought out an impromptu procession on the capital’s busy roads in a desperate attempt to secure robust security for the apparel industry increasingly being...
View ArticleChildren suffer in silence
If doing psychological damage to children is the goal of the ongoing violent politics, then the politicians seem to have succeeded. Take the case of Dhrubo, a four-and-a-half-year-old boy from Goran....
View ArticleBlockaders torch AL leader’s house
A youth was killed in a clash as blockaders set fire to the house of Kansat movement leader Golam Rabbani in Chapainawabganj yesterday, while a gunfight left a Chhatra Dal leader dead in Natore. The...
View ArticleJP picks war crimes suspect for JS polls
Jatiya Party has picked a war crime suspect to contest the upcoming parliamentary polls in Jessore-6 (Keshabpur) constituency. The nomination paper of Mawlana Sakhawat Hossain, who has allegedly been...
View ArticleAL criminals responsible
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia last night called on the Election Commission to suspend the polls schedule. Pointing to the EC in a two-page statement issued yesterday, she said, “Save the country by...
View ArticleJapan for talks to end violence
Japan has urged all political parties to engage in constructive dialogue to find a mutually acceptable solution for holding a free, fair and inclusive parliamentary election in the interest of...
View ArticleTrain rides get risky
Train passengers across the country have been put to great trouble as the railway has become the prime target for arson attacks by opposition activists in the recent blockades. “Though I love...
View ArticleiPad-reliant kids can’t hold pencil!
Toddlers these days are barely out of nappies before they are playing with touch-screen toys and fiddling with iPads. And now, it seems, they are paying the price — because when they arrive at nursery...
View ArticlePolice kill three militants in Indian Kashmir
Indian government forces killed three suspected rebels in Kashmir overnight following a lengthy gunbattle near the de facto border with Pakistan, police said yesterday. The three were killed after...
View ArticleCharity accuses Sri Lanka over ‘heinous’ aid workers massacre
France’s Action Against Hunger yesterday accused Sri Lankan security forces of killing 17 aid workers in cold blood and then organising a cover-up of what it termed a “heinous” war crime. In a report...
View ArticleDamascus blast kills four as rebels take Christian town
Four people were killed yesterday in a suicide bombing in central Damascus, Syrian state television reported, after rebels seized a historic Christian town north of the capital. State television said...
View ArticleChina puts anti-corruption activists on trial: lawyers
Three Chinese anti-corruption activists who unfurled banners calling for government officials to declare their assets stood trial yesterday for “illegal assembly”, a lawyer said, despite an official...
View ArticleIran criticises mooted US-Afghan security pact
Iran voiced criticism yesterday of a proposed pact that would pave the way for a US troop presence in Afghanistan beyond 2014, saying it would not serve its neighbour’s interests. “Iran does not see...
View ArticleAsia sweeps top spots in global education survey
Asian nations cemented their top positions in an eagerly awaited report on global education yesterday, as their students continued to outshine Western counterparts in maths, science and reading....
View ArticleMale, female brains wired differently
Scientists have drawn on nearly 1,000 brain scans to confirm what many had surely concluded long ago that stark differences exist in the wiring of male and female brains. Maps of neural circuitry...
View ArticleGovt spreading propaganda on ‘dialogue’
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday alleged the government was spreading propaganda to derail the opposition’s movement. In a statement, the BNP leader said, “Some...
View ArticleDeadline for appeal against verdict over
Condemned war criminals Chowdhury Mueen Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan have apparently lost their opportunity to challenge their conviction with the Appellate Division as the deadline to appeal expired...
View ArticleJharna rewarded with a govt job
Jharna Begum has finally got a permanent job as promised by government high-ups eight months ago after she made headlines by rescuing a policeman badly injured by activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir in...
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